Biographical Information
Dr. Patti Price is a consultant in speech and language technology, specializing in educational applications. She has over 20 years experience in developing and transferring speech and language technology, including the founding of three companies (Nuance Communications, BravoBrava! and Soliloquy Learning).
Articles by Patti Price
A Look at AVIOS' Speech and Multimodality Contest
01 Jun 2008
Students introduce voice to apps covering everything from airplanes to arithmetic
The Next "Great Leap Forward"
12 Sep 2006
Voice has long been an integral part of education and societal growth. About 40,000 years ago, Homo species underwent what Jared Diamond characterized as the "Great Leap Forward," when human culture changed at an accelerated rate. Diamond, a professor of geography at UCLA and Pulitzer Prize-winning author of Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies, maintains this "leap" coincided with the spread of human language.
Matching Technology and Application
11 Sep 2004
If the Star-Trek Communicator existed, communicating with machines would not require learning a programming language or the 'pidginization' of language it often feels like we have to endure today. Communication ease is limited by the state of core technologies; improving these technologies can lead to more speech applications. Improved speech applications can also come from rethinking the voice user interface. However, the greatest bottleneck to widespread adoption of speech technologies is the difficulty of balancing…